Strange desicion taken by Istomin to play here when due to his ranking he could be playing ATP Zagreb or Montpellier the same week :confused:.

au_sports_opinion

01-18-2012, 02:49 AM

i think ive said it before, i dont know why they dont play this tournament during the second week of ao. would get a far stronger entry list.

Sombrerero loco

01-18-2012, 03:30 PM

yeah, i agree so much =(

yesh222

01-20-2012, 06:20 PM

I want to see Duckworth play again. Kid has huge potential, I expect him on the main tour very soon.

Ley Ley

01-22-2012, 09:56 AM

Would be good to see young Duckworth put in another good performance here.

LutherReigns

01-22-2012, 10:22 AM

Hopefully Laaksonen will get a good quali-draw. He's the only young swiss player who has real good potential ....

Hewitt =Legend

01-23-2012, 07:29 AM

please give a wc to millman :worship:

Highly doubt he'll get one..

Strange desicion taken by Istomin to play here when due to his ranking he could be playing ATP Zagreb or Montpellier the same week :confused:.

He said the reason he's playing is because he has Davis Cup in New Zealand soon after and couldn't be bothered to travel back and forth.

Chris.

01-23-2012, 12:52 PM

[QUOTE=Hewitt =Legend;11664579]Highly doubt he'll get one..QUOTE]

Really? I would have thought he would have. Who do you think will get them?

TennisOnWood

01-23-2012, 01:55 PM

Go Ben and James

Redline

01-25-2012, 09:52 PM

I assume Saville, Harris and Kyrgios will get three of the main draw wild cards, All three are still involved in junior events at the Australian open and probably would have been front runners anyway. Patrick-Smith may get the other one.

Chris.

01-27-2012, 10:40 AM

My guess at the wildcards would be Millman, Patrick-Smith and Saville. Not sure about the 4th one.

Redline

01-27-2012, 11:25 AM

My guess at the wildcards would be Millman, Patrick-Smith and Saville. Not sure about the 4th one.

None of those three you mention are in the qualifying draw but neither are Krygios or Harris.

Chris.

01-27-2012, 11:43 AM

Krygios and Harris will not get a WC. They are not ready.

CooCooCachoo

01-27-2012, 12:55 PM

Krygios and Harris will not get a WC. They are not ready.

Kyrgios gave it a decent shot at the AO QD, I'd say. Didn't play the boys' singles event, but did well in doubles. Why shouldn't he get a WC?

TankingTheSet

01-27-2012, 08:11 PM

ATP has listed Marcos Daniel (BRA) in the qualifying OOP. He is supposed to be retired and lives in Brazil -- WTF would he be doing on hardcourts in rural Australia :lol:

I think it's possible that the officials have mistaken him with Marcus Daniell (NZL) who is ranked 729. :o

Smoke944

01-27-2012, 08:15 PM

ATP has listed Marcos Daniel (BRA) in the qualifying OOP. He is supposed to be retired and lives in Brazil -- WTF would he be doing on hardcourts in rural Australia :lol:

I think it's possible that the officials have mistaken him with Marcus Daniell (NZL) who is ranked 729. :o

Yeah. They already did this one other time at some USTA challenger.

Nathaliia

01-27-2012, 08:29 PM

:spit:
good one

also the umpires even when daniel was for long on tour didn't know what was his name and what the surname, marcos or daniel

BeyondGrateful

01-28-2012, 03:11 AM

JP Smith did get a WC. I don't know who else, but Go JP!!!

Chris.

01-28-2012, 05:02 AM

It appears that it is the Brazilian Marcus Daniel acording to his bio on the live scores.

TankingTheSet

01-28-2012, 09:15 AM

It appears that it is the Brazilian Marcus Daniel acording to his bio on the live scores.

:banghead: The Brazilian player is called Marcos not Marcus, don't add to the confusion.

I'm pretty sure they just haven't corrected the error and Marcus Daniell (NZL) was really playing.

Hewitt =Legend

01-28-2012, 12:39 PM

No way the Brazilian is playing Burnie.

No way.

hotdog

01-28-2012, 01:14 PM

Marcos Daniel retired last year. He's now a coach in his homeland. This is surely an error from the ATP.

Lot of interesting names in this CH event: Istomin and Lu with better chances to win the title, the Australian wave of Duckworth, Mitchell, Millman, Lemke, Matt Reid and Greg Jones while the rest of the Asian trouphie leaded by Ito, Sugita, Ze Zhang, Tsung-Hua Yang, Jimmy Wang and Udomchoke. Nice line up in a nice place :yeah:

Saviolero

01-29-2012, 09:16 PM

Any stream?

MKK

01-30-2012, 05:29 AM

Groth score?

JeffreyGOLU

01-30-2012, 07:25 AM

Yang won by 63 61

Nathaliia

01-30-2012, 04:17 PM

you can check the official page (link in 1st post) they have something called "live stream" but i have no idea if it works as i sleep that time :facepalm:

groth postponed to today, bad weather in burnie

TankingTheSet

01-30-2012, 07:12 PM

The QD has been fixed, as expected it was Marcus Daniell (NZL) who lost in the first round of qualifying.

Good luck to Guccione. :angel:

Action Jackson

01-31-2012, 01:26 AM

The commentators on this livestream are brilliant, such Aussies. One of them sounds like he smokes 60 a day.

Millman 6-4 6-2 very impressive he was, very solid from the back, used the serve well to get Jones out of position. Jones wasn't patient and hit too many bad dropshots.

motorhead

01-31-2012, 02:23 AM

awful camera angle

JeffreyGOLU

01-31-2012, 06:50 AM

4 Taiwanese in last 16!!
hope they all go into QF!!

Nathaliia

01-31-2012, 12:12 PM

haha i liked that angle of camera :p
of course very glad John won, and also Ben Mitchell (although i prefer Duckworth's style of play, I like Mitchell's balls)

Guccione finished for the time being :facepalm: oh well, at least he has a wife 100 cm smaller than him, wins at life.

Can somebody help me with very exact score of game number 27 in match beetween Udomchoke and Rieschick ? I have some problems with bookies. If nobody watched, maybe somebody could tell me where I can find some reports point after point, because I know that they exist in the net. But I`m not sure if they deal with challenger matches ?

mitchel_cz

02-01-2012, 05:57 AM

there was deuce in that game, I think breakballs for Rieschick too (1 or 2)

Rusedskii

02-01-2012, 06:09 AM

I`m talking about 6 game in 3rd set,Rieschick on serve and it was 5-0 for Udomchoke. I saw on liveboard 0-30 for Udomchoke, then 30-30, MP for Udomchoke and deuce, adv Rieschick ...

I must know this first 4 points of this game, am I right ? I`m saying what I saw on official view from the court, from this scoreboard . Was there 0-30 for Udomchoke and then 30-30 or it was different :)

Istomin has Davis Cup in New Zealand, decided to start the preparation early it seems.

Intheshadows

02-01-2012, 09:01 AM

Mitchell won 8 points on Yang's serve in the first set for 2 breaks LOL.

TennisOnWood

02-01-2012, 10:55 AM

Take the crown Ben

Sombrerero loco

02-01-2012, 12:44 PM

millman please beat groth next, nice chance for the semis :)

Nathaliia

02-01-2012, 01:40 PM

i wonder if istomin's injury was smth serious
surely he didnt want to risk before the DC but i think he'd have won the title here fairly easily

CrossCourt13

02-01-2012, 08:45 PM

I`m talking about 6 game in 3rd set,Rieschick on serve and it was 5-0 for Udomchoke. I saw on liveboard 0-30 for Udomchoke, then 30-30, MP for Udomchoke and deuce, adv Rieschick ...

I must know this first 4 points of this game, am I right ? I`m saying what I saw on official view from the court, from this scoreboard . Was there 0-30 for Udomchoke and then 30-30 or it was different :)

Jimmy should take this. If it wasn't for the constant injuries, he would have been a solid TOP 100 player for sure.

Action Jackson

02-03-2012, 09:29 AM

Udomchoke 6-4 6-4

Groth too good for Sugita 7-6 6-4, patient at the back broke for *5-4 and served it out easily.

CooCooCachoo

02-03-2012, 10:02 AM

Danai really doing quite well this year. Good on the veteran :yeah:

Sombrerero loco

02-03-2012, 11:46 AM

groth is on fire^^

Nathaliia

02-03-2012, 12:32 PM

GL Sam but it'll be tough
Danai also had a year of injuries and zero shape in 2011... ofc he's a better player than the 2011's 1st round losses would suggest :p

Hewitt =Legend

02-03-2012, 12:36 PM

The only thing that would make the result better would be if the Grothawk made a comeback.

Action Jackson

02-04-2012, 08:37 AM

Udomchoke just a class above and deserved the title.

Udomchoke 7-6(5) 6-3

Yves.

02-04-2012, 08:40 AM

Groth :o You should've won man. 17 aces though!

Li Ching Yuen

02-04-2012, 09:53 AM

Groth should've won that first set. Kind of choked it away.
He also added some weight from what I see.

Udomchoke is just too solid.

Nathaliia

02-04-2012, 12:59 PM

nah, had to happen
udomchoke very solid throughout the week
sam will get a solid boost with that final though

i just found out for udomchoke it was first challenger win since busan may 2009. later he was often playing futures :facepalm:

BeyondGrateful

02-04-2012, 09:09 PM

Great job by JP Smith and John Peers to clinch the doubles title. Hope they can repeat in Caloundra!

fran70

02-04-2012, 09:14 PM

nah, had to happen
udomchoke very solid throughout the week
sam will get a solid boost with that final though

i just found out for udomchoke it was first challenger win since busan may 2009. later he was often playing futures :facepalm:

Hi Nathi
Please, bear in mind that in 2010 he almost didn`t play for eight months and returned back playing Future events (not sure but I reckon he was injured). He dropped in his rankings and was forced to play Future events in 2011 aswell and now he seems to be back (he reached AO MD from Q and now achieved the title in Burnie which will help him to jump in the rankings close to the top 155 if Im not wrong)

Fleck

03-08-2012, 01:21 PM

Does anyone have the oops from this tournament, or at least can tell me where to get these from?

BeyondGrateful

03-08-2012, 02:03 PM

Does anyone have the oops from this tournament, or at least can tell me where to get these from?

I found the OOP for the finals at http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2012/5018/op.pdf

are you looking for all of them?

Fleck

03-08-2012, 07:05 PM

Actually I am looking for oops of the first few days, when the names of players were not visible on stream - I would like to know whom I watching :)

BeyondGrateful

03-08-2012, 07:48 PM

Actually I am looking for oops of the first few days, when the names of players were not visible on stream - I would like to know whom I watching :)

This is the best I can find - I even asked my friend who won doubles there and he couldn't find. At least this shows the date, who played each other and what the results were. Hope it helps.